<p>No. I am a glass of wine with dinner type of person....just not a drinking games type of person (I attended the "heavy" distinction to be implied in my original post). FWIW, I can keep up at least a cordial acquaintanceship with almost anyone (as long as they are cordial back to me!). Of course, there are some values that I find so repugnant that I couldn't possibly keep up a friendship with someone, but I think that that is true for everyone!</p>
<p>"there are some values that I find so repugnant that I couldn't possibly keep up a friendship with someone"</p>
<p>Hey, I can't help it I'm Irish.. c'mon now.. :)</p>
<p>We are far more alike than different. </p>
<p>I'm not much for drinking games either, I just use a different rationale.. buy a nice beer and "enjoy" it.</p>
<p>cute, xiggi. :)</p>
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From a distance, it appears that this study relied on a reasonable sample and did include reasonable controlling factors:
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<p>Have a look at the paragraph that describes the very long list of problems with the sample, which should have raised alarms about their simpleminded "two-stage" regression methodology. The list is similar to what Hanna posted, only worse. The error on the regression coefficients was enormous for a sample of 5000, which doesn't inspire confidence in the model. One author was a master's student in sociology, the other is a sociology professor at BYU. This may be typical of the sociology literature but it is not worth headlines.</p>